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And, again, with he want to be part of the conversation on that moving forward. blake. >> let me ask you one on puerto rico and then one on taxes if you don't mind. going back to puerto rico you said that with the debt that there is a process in place and that the process will play out. does that mean the president's comments of just simply wiping away the debt is no longer on the table? >> the president wants that to go through that process and that's the stage we are in. >> and on tax reform, chuck schumer now or at least is scheduled to have a news conference about the state and local tax d...

Implied or otherwise, this suggests something of the character of this whole administration. i would say probably more like a rehe jigim regime, i don't mean that as a complement, than it is an administration. i think there is a distraction strategy too. because if you like the health care reform, it has collapsed again, and so the nfl takes front and center. he's just delivered a so-called tax framework, and that is likely to be a big giveaway to very wealthy people, going to be much better off as a result of it, than a lot of people on the political base. i think he does do this often to dis...

Basically? >> all right, as you said, i've been neck-deep in the tax framework since its release yesterday, so i haven't been following every senator's response -- >> you and senators who haven't read the roy moore clip. >> i will dispute republicans are giving some warm bear hug to the senator, that the entire establishment opposed in his primary. it's been 48 hours since he has become the republican nominee for that race. so i would say there's been tepid maybe discussion about him, but this notion that he is somehow the crown prince for the republican party is just simply laughable. >> well...

Worth, tax reform, to you? is roy moore worth it, basically? >> all right, as you said, i've been neck-deep in the tax framework since its release yesterday, so i haven't been following every senator's response -- >> you and senators who haven't read the roy moore clip. >> i will dispute republicans are giving some warm bear hug to the senator, that the entire establishment opposed in his primary. it's been 48 hours since he has become the republican nominee for that race. so i would say there's been tepid maybe discussion about him, but this notion that he is somehow the crown prince for the ...

At more than plus 30 points in early march to now minus 40 points. with almost no legislative accomplishments to show from eight months of unified republican government, mcconnell doesn't just risk losing control of his conference to insurgents like roy moore, he risks losing control of the senate altogether. senator john thune put it, "we got to start producing legislative results or we're going to end up in the minority two years from now." which brings us to tax cuts. the last remaining big-ticket item on the republican agenda and the party's last real chance to reward its tone nors and giv...